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The Stoessel lute (German: Stössel-Laute) is a string instrument invented by Georg Stössel in 1914 in Cologne (Köln), Germany. Its steel strings are fingered not by putting one's hand round the neck, but over the end of it. To this end, most Stössel lutes have very short necks. It is, in effect, a hybrid between a necked string instrument (or a Lute) and a zither making it a Lute Zither.
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- Wikidata Q7618343 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Stoessel lute – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Image by Akkordeon at German Wikipedia – Public domain